To be looking so differently now at Drs, schools etc etc

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Has anyone else had a change of opinion about things that they’ve not really questioned and always just accepted before, in the last few years?
It could be since a became a mum, but I’m wondering if it’s more.
My Dd has been very ill recently and I’ve gained much better help, advise from less traditional Drs-think medical Drs who focus on naturopathy too, homeopathy and so on, I never knew anything about homeopathy before my Dd got ill. The results I’ve seen are incredible and much more positive that traditional things like antibiotics, painkillers and so on.
I used to be a teacher and loved it, but I’ve found myself really questioning if this is the right system and the right way of doing things and am increasingly doubting traditional schooling. Even the way the majority of us work, the 9-5, the commutes, snatched weekends with loved ones, the yearly holiday.
Maybe I’m just becoming an old hippie! 😂
Does anyone else feel like this?

”Well-informed” is subjective. It generally means agrees with me or agrees with what I consider the paradigm.

@GrammarTeacher I’m sorry, I don’t understand your posts in relation to the illness I’m talking about

@BarbaraHoward That’s incredible, it’s rarely that simple sadly. My Dd has been on two different sets of antibiotics, both made her worse unfortunately. It’s finding the underlying cause which can be very complicated and upsetting and stressful

Well-informed definitely doesn’t mean ‘agrees with me’. It means informed about actual research in this case.

That is what it means to you.

“Informed about the research” begs many questions - how informed, how much research, competency to assess the research, what types of research, studies pro and con? What is the consensus? Is the consensus country or culture specific? What are the research/treatment options in the U.K. vs Europe, US, China etc. And what about research into the individual patient?

Homeopathy? Really?

Were you aware of the $1m prize that can be won by anybody demonstrating that homeopathy is effective?

Alternative medicine that works is called medicine.

Well there isn't any research to support the use of homeopathy. The active ingredient is water.

So tell us about the knowledge and research base as it relates to homeopathy.

Just an FYI - not all chemo is "horrific" and "grueling". Nor is chemo the only treatment modality available for cancer these days. Homeopathy might be side effect free, but it is also efficacy free.

Unfortunately, trying to discuss and question homeopathy with anyone who ‘believes’ is very difficult as they almost exclusively resort to conspiracy theories or subjective opinions. Things people, including my late aunt, say when challenged:

• Homeopathy is effective, but because it is cheap and ‘Big Pharma’ can’t make any money from it, they will never admit it works.
• Any testing that shows it doesn’t work is ‘Big Pharma’ colluding for above reasons. Also, ‘Big Pharma’ want people to remain ill so that they can make more money selling them treatments.
• My friend / cousin / mum / sister had ‘x’ disease and did homeopathy and it ‘cured’ them, therefore homeopathy works. Any improvement seen whilst taking homeopathic remedies is proof that homeopathy works.

There won’t be any arguments for efficacy that don’t fall into one of these bullet points.

Show me one piece of research that fits those criteria that says homeopathy works.
It doesn’t. Logically it can’t. Numerous studies have proved it doesn’t.

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Go onto any Facebook group and ask for tips on how people have dealt with some common self-limiting condition (sciatica is a good one). You will get 50 different answers from 50 different people, because none of the treatments cured it — people just believe that the last thing they tried before the problem went away must have been what caused it.

Sadly we are all very good at telling ourselves stories when it comes to our health, without realising that we are deluding ourselves. "Normally when I get a cold it lasts a week, but with [remedy] it was gone in just 7 days. I mean, you can't say fairer than that."

Also, homeopaths tend to be very nice people and spend lots of time with you for your £££, unlike overworked NHS doctors. We are all much more prepared to believe nice people who tell us what we want to hear, especially since to do otherwise would imply that we aren't sure that we made a wise choice spending the money.

It's worth pointing out that for children who don't have an active infection, PANS/PANDAS may subside with age. The evidence for long term antibiotics or IVIG, which some doctors prescribe, is limited.

• Homeopathy is effective, but because it is cheap and ‘Big Pharma’ can’t make any money from it, they will never admit it works.

Big Pharma would be utterly thrilled if it could achieve the profit margins that homeopathy has. Sugar pills with some water are very cheap to produce and there are no R&D costs at all, no clinical trials, no licencing costs, no patent applications.

So tell us where I posted anything about homeopathy in this thread.

😂 I refer you back to our previous conversation in we established you are arguing with yourself.

Interesting. You always deny that I’m answering something you’ve said when you can’t progress your own argument further. Got it.

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But no, you don't get it. Homeopathy "fights like with like". So by drinking water who remembers poop, you're actually fighting cholera! Clever, aye?

Ohhhhhhhh! I get it now! So if I do water who remembers cake, I’ll finally be able to lose the forty pounds I put on over lockdown?

Now you're talking!

😂 You quote what I said that this was a response to:

Show me one piece of research that fits those criteria that says homeopathy works.It doesn’t.

As I have pointed out before I’ve not mentioned homeopathy other than in passing reference to medical doctors also in trained in alternative medicine.

My point was about duel training not about homeopathy. The OP is about evaluation of traditional methods of medicine and education.

So desperate are you to argue with someone about homeopathy that you’ve overlooked that I have no interest in it and have resorted to invention.

Oh dear, it doesn't look like anyone can point to any evidence for the efficacy of homeopathy then.